On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 04:32:22PM +1100, Phillip Smith wrote: > SHAMPOO","EQUEST","401600","0.00","0.00","0.00","0.00","10.00","" ^^ > SELECT * FROM tmpstk WHERE ean = NULL; ^^^^
Along with what Michael Fuhr said in his post about equality and NULL, Postgres doesn't treat the empty string and NULL as equivalent (because they're not). Only Oracle has that dodgy interpretation of SQL, as far as I know. If you want to use the empty string, you need WHERE ean = '' If you want instead ean to be NULL, use the traditional \N to signify NULL on your way in, or define null some other way. A -- Andrew Sullivan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Users never remark, "Wow, this software may be buggy and hard to use, but at least there is a lot of code underneath." --Damien Katz ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend